In the US the base price for both the PS4 and X1 controller is $59.99.

Yeah that was the same as here, but I didnt know we shouldnt be getting another shipment for over a month.

Damn, we are getting scammed 

To NZ & Australia combined? probably not many Australia pop of 22m and NZ pop of 4.5m.

Maybe 20-30k

NZ im pretty sure gets its consoles shipped from Aussies litter.

Probably due to PS4 getting launched in Japan this year as well in December....

BELIEVE!!!!!!

I hope so, Japan deserves it first I reckon.

Yeah I ordered mine about a month back and the guy that served me said that I was lucky enough to have made the cut off point cos all preorders from the next day onwards couldn't be guarenteed allocation...
Then I was in the same shop about 4 days later and I heard the guy tell another customer the exact same thing!!!???

Yeah, I think New Zealand does, from a market point of view, New Zealand might as well be another state of Australia, with it's freedom of movement and trade.

The PS4 in Australia is $550 and the Xbox One is $600, so it would be cheaper to import from Australia anyway, even with shipping and currency conversion.

And although we are a small market, we are still pretty darn high consumers (Per capita) of all things tech. :)

Maybe Japanese people are preordering from AUS or NZ since it is fairly close.

Australia and NZ are really small markets. The shipments will be the same. It'll be quicker to pre-order from over-seas right now!! I only know 1 person who actually bothered to pre-order! IRL, I mean.